| Lee McDermott | |||||||||
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| Tuc Watkins as Bob Hunter with Kevin Rahm as Lee McDermott | |||||||||
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| Portrayed by | Kevin Rahm | ||||||||
| First appearance | "If There's Anything I Can't Stand" 4x04, October 21, 2007 |
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| Created by | Marc Cherry | ||||||||
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| Occupation | Real-estate agent | ||||||||
| Residence | 4351 Wisteria Lane in Fairview, Eagle State - since beginning of season 4 with the exception between late season 6 to early season 7 | ||||||||
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Lee McDermott is a recurring fictional character on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives, played by Kevin Rahm.
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Lee first appeared in the fourth season in the episode "If There's Anything I Can't Stand." Susan Delfino tries to welcome Lee and his partner, Bob, to Wisteria Lane. However, she makes quite a mess of greeting them and ends up getting off on the wrong foot, as Lee responds to her quite rudely. Trying to get him and his partner to like her, Susan brings them cookies she bought. She soon finds out Lee is allergic to the nuts she wasn't aware were in the store-bought confections. Desperate, she hides the couple's dog, which her daughter Julie has found wandering, in her garage in order to seem like the hero who found their dog. However, the plan ends up being a disaster when the dog escapes from her garage and jumps on Bob, ruining his expensive suit with the paint all over his paws. Not long after this, Lee and his patrner buy an expensive and noisy fountain, getting themselves at odds with the whole neighborhood. They try to prevent Katherine from becoming president by pushing Lynette to go against her, but they fail. When Katherine arrives at their doorstep demanding they take down the fountain, they respond by revealing they know a part of her mystery. She quickly backs down. Bob and Lee have a civil ceremony in the fourth season finale episode, "Free".
In the fifth season episode "Home is the Place," Susan Mayer wakes up next to Lee and gets the impression that they had sex. Eventually, Susan talks to Lee about this, and he quickly tells her that nothing happened between them. In the episode "Mama Spent Money When She Had None," Bob tells Lee about how Dave Williams framed Porter Scavo for setting the White Horse club on fire. Lee passes the information to Tom Scavo, who later confronts Dave about the night of the fire.
In the sixth season premiere episode "Nice is Different Than Good," Lee has just obtained his real estate broker's license, taking over the neighborhood from the late Edie Britt. He sells the Young family's former house to the Bolens. During the sale, Angie Bolen presses Lee on the reason why the house was selling so cheaply, and Lee eventually confesses that Mary Alice committed suicide within the house.
Later, Bob and Lee reveal that they are in marriage counseling,[2] during which time they run into several obstacles while trying to have a child.[3] Later, neighbor Gabrielle Solis (Eva Longoria Parker) offers to be their egg donor for a surrogacy. Bob and Lee gratefully accept her offer, but they tell her that they do not want her to have an active role in raising the child. This causes Gabrielle to question her commitment, and she retracts her offer. Drained from dealing with the difficulty and unhappiness of trying to have a child, Lee leaves Bob.[4]
In the sixth season finale episode "I Guess This is Goodbye" Lee rents out Susan Mayer's house to Paul Young. When Lee tells Paul how nice the neighbors in Wisteria Lane are, Paul responds by saying, "Oh, I know the neighborhood very well. The truth is: I used to live here." Lee says that everyone would be excited to see that he has moved back. Paul replies, "They absolutely will."
Along with Tuc Watkins (Bob Hunter), Kevin Rahm returned to play Lee McDermott and become a series regular.[5] When Carlos and Bob start hanging out together, Lee warns Gabrielle that Bob has a history of "flipping" straight men. Gabrielle gets the two together to admit they still love each other, and they are reunited as a couple. When it's revealed that Paul Young has been buying houses to set up a home for ex-convicts on the Lane, everyone is upset with Lee over selling him the properties. He and Bob are prepared to leave for a hotel when they're caught in a protest that turns into a riot with Juanita Solis hiding in the backseat. Their car is smashed as Lee has a bottle cracked over his head. Lynette helps rescue him, forgiving him for being pulled into Paul's schemes. As Lee was seen packing a gun, he is one of the suspects in Paul's shooting. Lee and Bob tell Gaby that, since there was a 2-year waiting period for adopting a baby they, adopted an older girl.
In the eighth season episode "Watch While I Revise the World," Lee becomes increasingly jealous of his daughter spending so much time with Renee (Vanessa Williams) after she takes her shopping. When his daughter reveals she wants a mother figure and sees Renee as one, Lee becomes more worried. Renee reassures him he is doing a great job of being a father.
In the episode "Always in Control," Gaby and Carlos attempt to have Bob and Lee agree to be their children's guardians if anything happens to them. Bob and Lee go to the Solis' house for dinner to see if their kids are mature enough to live with them. After a surprisingly peaceful night, Bob and Lee leave happy only to find homophobic graffiti on the Solis' garage door, angering them. Gaby punishes Juanita for the graffiti and promises they are not going anywhere.
Marc Cherry has stated that he named Bob and Lee after ABC journalist Bob Woodruff and his wife, Lee, after meeting them at a dinner.[6]
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